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Residents sued for demanding transparency from community head
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Papanggo subdistrict office in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta. (wartakota.tribunnews.com/Google Earth)
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he Jakarta administration has planned to summon officials from Papanggo subdistrict in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, over a transparency dispute in one of its community units (RW).
Jakarta Governance Bureau head Premi Lasari said the summons followed a report from residents who had been reported to the North Jakarta District Court by their RW head for actively questioning transparency in the community's savings.
The RW head, Hasan Sunardi, accused them of committing slanderous action against him as well as provoking other residents, wartakota.tribunnews.com reported.
"We'll summon them again next week and demand they explain the result of the mediation," he told the news portal on Tuesday.
According to Feriana, a resident of neighborhood unit (RT) 07, Hasan sued residents for demanding transparency of the RW's savings.
"The RW head apparently couldn't accept that and felt discredited, and sued three residents deemed provocateurs," Feriana said last week, adding that two months earlier, the RW head had sent legal notices to eight of his residents.
The residents questioned where their money had gone because the RW head allegedly had not submitted financial reports for the past six years, which is against Gubernatorial Regulation No. 171/2016 on guidelines of RT and RW.
The dispute reportedly started 10 months ago. (fac)
